The fiscal pit and the federalist pendulum: Explaining differences between US States in protecting health and the environment |
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Authors: | Michael R Greenberg Frank J Popper Bernadette M West |
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Institution: | (1) Rutgers State University of New Jersey, 08903 New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA |
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Abstract: | Summary The US federal government has deliberately shifted a great deal of responsibility for protecting public health and the environment to the 50 US States. Some States are able and willing to assume control, but many others cannot or will not. It is argued that the American federal government should be prepared to intervene in those States that do not place health and environment on their agenda.Dr. Michael Greenberg is Professor of the School of Urban and Regional Policy at Rutgers as well as being an Advisory Board member to this journal. Prof. Frank Popper chairs the Department of Urban Studies and Community Health at Rutgers University. He has written extensively about land use issues and the American Great Plains. Bernadette West is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy Development, Rutgers University. Her thesis concerns scientific and political issues in developing cancer research centers. |
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